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Corporate Counsel

Central Nervous System Drug Developer Aquestive Hires New GC in Wake of IPO

Lori Braender, who has been with Day Pitney since she graduated from law school in 1983, will lead the legal functions for the Warren, New Jersey-based company, which is advancing a pipeline of treatment for central nervous system diseases.
2 minute read

Daily Report Online

Clearside Biomedical Brings on Industry Vet as New Legal Boss

Alpharetta-based Clearside Biomedical, which specializes in the development of treatments to restore and preserve vision for people with serious eye diseases, has named Leslie Zacks as general counsel and chief compliance officer.
2 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Connecticut State Employees, Florida Pharmacy Sued in Alleged Kickback Scheme

The state of Connecticut has sued the Florida-based compounding pharmacy Assured Rx, along with several former and current Connecticut state employees, alleging that they participated in a kickback scheme involving drugs covered by a taxpayer-funded pharmacy benefit plan.
2 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Court Sides With Employee in Anti-American Bias Discrimination Case

National origin discrimination claims typically involve allegations of discrimination based on an employee's non-American country of origin. Middlebrooks v. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Civ. A. No. 17-412 (E.D. Pa. Aug. 31, 2018) involved the atypical claim of alleged national origin discrimination based on anti-American bias.
7 minute read

The Recorder

Take 2?: Court of Appeal Revives Claims Over 'One A Day' Vitamins

The Fourth District Court of Appeal disagreed with the two federal judges who concluded that any reasonable consumer would read the label of a "medicine-like" product like vitamins.
3 minute read

Litigation Daily

Litigator of the Week: Alexandra Walsh Keeps Xarelto Winning Streak Alive

Wilkinson Walsh + Eskovitz co-founder Alexandra Walsh takes the crown as Litigator of the Week, persuading a Philadelphia jury to find for the defense in a bellwether trial involving the blockbuster blood thinner Xarelto.
8 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Pay Improves, Gender Diversity Steady Among Top Lawyers at NJ Public Companies

According to data on fiscal 2017 culled from federal securities filings, average salary among 20 general counsel for publicly held companies based in the state was $448,945.
8 minute read

Delaware Business Court Insider

Genentech Sues to Halt Biosimilar Version of Cancer Drug

Genentech Inc. has accused Samsung Bioepis Co. in Delaware federal court of infringing 21 patents for its breast cancer drug Herceptin.
4 minute read

Delaware Business Court Insider

Stark's Infringement Ruling Blocks Generic Acne Treatment

A Delaware federal judge has barred Amneal Pharmaceuticals from marketing a generic version of Galderma Laboratories' Oracea acne drug through 2025, finding that the drug infringed under the equitable doctrine of equivalents.
4 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

3rd Circuit Revives 'Swapping' Claims Against Pharma Company

"We hold that the FCA's public disclosure bar is not implicated in such a circumstance, where a relator's non-public information permits an inference of fraud that could not have been supported by the public disclosures alone."
5 minute read

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